My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Lean towards: yes
Abortion Accept: permissible
Abstract objects Agnostic/undecided
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: pleasure
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Lean towards: truth/knowledge
Analysis of knowledge Lean towards: justified true belief
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Belief or credence Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Capital punishment Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Causation Lean towards: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Lean towards: understands
Concepts Lean towards: empiricism
Consciousness Accept: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Eating animals and animal products Lean towards: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics There is no fact of the matter
Epistemic justification Agnostic/undecided
Extended mind Agnostic/undecided
External world Lean towards: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Accept: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: structuralism
Free will Accept: no free will
Gender Lean towards: biological
Gender categories Lean towards: revise
God Lean towards: atheism
Grounds of intentionality Lean towards: causal/teleological
Hard problem of consciousness Agnostic/undecided
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: permissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Agnostic/undecided
Interlevel metaphysics Lean towards: grounding
Justification Agnostic/undecided
Kant Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Knowledge Accept: empiricism
Knowledge claims Accept: contextualism
Law Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Laws of nature Lean towards: non-Humean
Logic Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Material composition Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Meaning of life Accept: subjective
Mental content Agnostic/undecided
Meta-ethics Lean towards: moral realism
Metaontology Lean towards: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Accept: naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Lean towards: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading There is no fact of the matter
Moral judgment Lean towards: cognitivism
Moral motivation Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Moral principles Lean towards: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: constructivism
Newcomb's problem Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Normative concepts Lean towards: reasons
Normative ethics Lean towards: consequentialism
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards adult humans
  • Lean towards cats
  • Lean against fish
  • Reject flies
  • Reject worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Lean towards newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Lean towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Lean towards: no
Perceptual experience Accept: disjunctivism
Personal identity There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical knowledge There is no fact of the matter
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept conceptual analysis
  • Lean against experimental philosophy
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Neutral towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Reject linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a little
Plato Lean towards: knowledge only of forms
Political philosophy Lean towards: egalitarianism
Politics Lean towards: capitalism
Possible worlds Lean towards: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Lean towards: false
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Agnostic/undecided
Propositional attitudes Lean towards: dispositional
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race categories Lean towards: revise
Rational disagreement Lean towards: permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: semantic externalist
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: moderate contextualism (intermediate)
Sleeping beauty Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Spacetime Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Statue and lump Lean towards: two things
Teletransporter There is no fact of the matter
Temporal ontology Lean towards: eternalism
Theory of reference Lean towards: causal
Time Accept: B-theory
Time travel Lean towards: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: don't switch
True contradictions Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Truth Lean towards: correspondence
Units of selection Lean towards: genes
Vagueness Lean towards: semantic
Values in science Lean towards: can be either
Well-being Lean towards: desire satisfaction
Wittgenstein Agnostic/undecided
Zombies Lean towards: conceivable but not metaphysically possible